Jasmin starts Nickenig as a tour chef for Bob Dylan. Your first assignment: the Ukraine, where a part comes your as well as Dylan’s family. It all starts with the quiet days in the Crimea – for Jasmine is also the day of probation. Hardly arrived, however, a phone call: An old man from Odessa say, he is hot, in truth, floras tinius Malsam – like Jasmine 1944-lost grandfather. This son of black sea German farmers, experienced a dangerous Childhood and youth between Hitler and Stalin, before the war tore apart his young family. Confused, Jasmine visited on the same day – to be alone with her famous employer, the Villa Anton Chekhov in Yalta. Dylan sends you to go to the bottom of it. Jasmine embarks on an adventurous journey to Odessa and into a very strange family and historical relationships. Finally, she meets an old man and his incredible story …
Markus mountain tells the story of intertwined lives, and the gaps left by the devil. A wonderful novel about the different types of freedom – and about the quirks of Bob Dylan.
Jasmine Engagement as a tour cook is to journey into the family past. Markus Berges’ fresh novel about history(n), secrets and the Ukraine.
There is probably not a book that bears the title the name of Bob Dylan, and so little to do with the singer. Markus Berges’ novel “The cook of Bob Dylan” is nevertheless a must-read. And finally, Bobby, as he is called in the novel, Yes, but a certain role: He’s playing destiny.
But from the front. Mountain’ protagonist Jasmine is Nickenig, a restless Thirtysomething. A friend gives her the Job as Bob Dylan’s tour a cook. Dylan, whose grandmother comes from the book from Odessa, gives his first concert in the Ukraine. And here Jasmin is that a man by the name of Vova from Odessa to be your grandfather. The name Floren tinius Malsam and came from a family of black sea Germans. The reader will learn the story of his life in chapters that are alternately described to Jasmine tour story. Floras tinius’s family was expropriated at the time of Stalin and in the North of Russia banished. Almost he back arrived in the southern Ukraine would be killed, a few years later, during the Holodomor, the organized famine of the 1930s. According to the family story of grandpa in 1944 is missing. Or is it not?
Markus Berges, when he writes novels (his debut, “A long letter to September Nowak”, published in 2010), singer of the Band model, it is possible to tell a story that is dusty, despite the history a bit. It takes him from everything, even Bob Dylan in Odessa! som
Markus mountain: “The cook of Bob Dylan”, Rowohlt, Berlin Verlag, 286 pages, 20.60 euros.
